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The Athletics have some incentive for an AL victory in the All-Star game; since 2003, the winner’s league gets to start the World Series at home, and 23 of the last 28 titles were won by teams scheduled to host four of a possible seven games.

While many other consumers will simply avoid holiday crowds at shopping malls or even wait until Cyber Monday, retail stores across the nation will be buzzing with activity on the day after Thanksgiving. The following are five of the best American cities for Black Friday deals.

This storm has been pounding a lot of the country with everything from mountain snows across the west to a full out blizzard in the Upper Midwest to icing in the Appalachians and flurries even down in Georgia, to severe weather along the Gulf.